AWS Security Blog

When building applications on AWS, you often need to manage various types of configuration data, including sensitive values such as API tokens or database credentials. From environment variables and API keys to passwords and endpoints, this configuration data helps determine application behavior. AWS offers managed services that you can use for different aspects of managing […]

AWS Secrets Manager is a service that you can use to manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You can also use Secrets Manager to replace hard-coded credentials in application source code with runtime calls to retrieve credentials dynamically when needed. Managing secrets in Amazon Elastic […]

AWS re:Invent 2025, the premier cloud computing conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), returns to Las Vegas, Nevada, from December 1–5, 2025. This flagship event brings together the global cloud community for an immersive week of learning, collaboration, and innovation across multiple venues. Whether you’re a cloud expert, business leader, or technology enthusiast, re:Invent […]

Recently, AWS released Amazon Bedrock API keys to make calls to the Amazon Bedrock API. In this post, we provide practical security guidance on effectively implementing, monitoring, and managing this new option for accessing Amazon Bedrock to help you build a comprehensive strategy for securing these keys. We also provide guidance on the larger family […]

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help you safely build generative AI applications at scale. It offers integrated safety and privacy protections that work across multiple foundation models (FMs), including models available in Amazon Bedrock and models hosted outside Amazon Bedrock from other providers. Bedrock Guardrails currently offers six key safeguards to help prevent […]

October 22, 2025: This post was updated to reflect additional IAM permissions necessary for Amazon Bedrock serverless models offered through AWS Marketplace. Amazon Bedrock has simplified how you access foundation models, streamlining the integration of AI capabilities into your applications. Here’s what’s changed and how to maintain control over model access in your organization. What’s […]

By using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, developers can build agentic workloads using a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help quickly and securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere. AgentCore services are modular and composable, allowing them to be used together or independently. To […]

In this post, we show how to configure customer trust stores to work with public certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Organizations can encounter challenges when configuring trust stores for ACM certificates and incorrect trust store configuration can lead to SSL/TLS errors and application downtime. While most modern web browsers and operating systems trust […]

October 8, 2025: This blog post has been updated to include the Amazon Cognito managed login experience. The managed login experience has an updated look, additional features, and enhanced customization options. September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper: Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, providing customers with an in-depth look at the architecture, built-in security features, and capabilities of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode. The whitepaper covers the core security principles of Amazon EKS Auto Mode, highlighting its unique approach […]